Experts - Angel, Nun, and Priest
4 December 2020
Today we had our final expert session focusing on
the music we have been singing this term in our An Angel, a Nun,
and a Red Priest Home Choir project. On Friday 14 November at
4:00pm we heard from Dr Kimberly Marshall from her home in Arizona
about how the music of Frescobaldi, Corelli, and Vivaldi, influenced
the music of Bach - especially his organ works. The next week we
heard Sarah Lenton, who works at the Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden, on connections between Handel and Italy - not just the music
of Corelli, Scarlatti, and Vivaldi, but also the art and literature,
and especially in the operatic realm. Last week Candace Smith joined
us from her home in Bologna for a fascinating talk all about the
music of convents in the period, and the huge number of nuns who
were composing, including Isabella Leonarda, whose Magnificat we
have been singing. Today’s final talk was given by Dr Jasmin Cameron
from the University of Aberdeen. She edited the score of Vivaldi’s
Gloria we have been using this term, and gave us a wonderful
presentation on how she edited the score, the history of the
manuscript and the various editions over the years, and the
influence (putting it mildly!) of Ruggieri’s Gloria on Vivaldi’s
composition.
Candace Smith from Bologna, Italy
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Jasmin Cameron from the University of
Aberdeen
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Kimberly Marshall from Arizona, USA
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Sarah Lenton from the Royal Opera House
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We are very grateful to our Musical Director, Lee, for
organising and hosting these sessions, to our fellow choral singers
in Lee’s other choirs in Huntingdon, Leamington Spa, and
Wellingborough, for joining us for these sessions, and especially to
the four learned women who gave such inspirational multi-media
talks. Whilst we are missing singing in person so very much, being
able to connect with experts from all over the globe in this way has
been a quite remarkable silver lining to this horrid Covid-19 cloud.
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